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Edward Said: The ‘Founding Father’ Who May Explain Obama’s Benghazi Errors

Oct. 18, 2012 10:47am Mytheos Holt

Editor’s Note: This week, the DVD of the movie “2016″ will be released. A key premise of the film is that Barack Obama has his own set of five “founding fathers” — five key people who shaped his worldview. This week, TheBlaze will examine one of those individuals each day. Yesterday we examined Frank Marshall Davis. Today we will explore the life of a man whose teachings may have influenced Obama to look with an excess of charity toward anti-Western forces both in college and beyond, Edward Said.

At 4pm ET our live BlazeCast featuring Editor-in-Chief Scott Baker and writer Mytheos Holt will focus on our examination of Edward Said. Feel free to join the live chat and submit questions!

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“Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.”
-Edward Said

“In every country, there are those who find different religious beliefs threatening; in every culture, those who love freedom for themselves must ask themselves how much they are willing to tolerate freedom for others…That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world.”
-Barack Obama

In an article for this publication written early last month, conservative author Dinesh D’Souza argues, “Throughout his formative years and even later, Barack Obama sought out mentors who could teach him chapter and verse of the anti-colonial ideology. This is the ‘dream from his father’ that Obama refers to in his own autobiography. Since the father wasn’t around–having abandoned Obama at birth–Obama sought our surrogate fathers, and together they form a group I call ‘Obama’s founding fathers.’”

D’Souza identifies several individuals with that label, but one in particular stands out insofar as his connection to Obama, while it may be less personal than the others, may also explain some of Obama’s more puzzling actions since the attack last month in Benghazi: namely, the Palestinian radical writer and academic Edward Said. D’Souza describes Said this way:

Prior to his death in 2003, Said was the leading anti-colonial thinker in the United States. Obama studied with Said at Columbia University and the two maintained a relationship over the next two decades. Obama attended a Palestinian fundraiser in Chicago in 1998 in which Said was the featured speaker, and Obama also befriended Said’s protege Rashid Khalidi, who currently occupies the Edward Said chair of Arab Studies at Columbia.

Said wasn’t a mere academic; for a time, he served as a member of the Palestine National Council. In this capacity he worked closely with Yasser Arafat. Said has been photographed throwing rocks at Israel to symbolize his support for armed resistance against the Jewish state; one Jewish magazine dubbed him a “Professor of Terror.”

While Said was hired by Columbia to teach literature, his main interests were always political. We see this in the titles of his books: Culture and Imperialism, The Question of Palestine, and The Politics of Dispossession. He was a vehement critic of the United State and an even-more-vehement critic of Israel. America, Said argued, is a genocidal power with a “history of reducing whole peoples, countries, and even continents to ruin by nothing short of holocaust.”

Edward Said (Photo Credit: Biography.com)

D’Souza’s indictment of Said himself is a powerful bit of intellectual polemic. However, questions remain – just how much was Obama connected to Said? What did Said actually believe? And how might Said’s views have influenced Obama? These questions, like so many related to Obama’s past, have frustratingly muddled answers. However, the evidence can be laid out without much trouble.

Obama’s connection to Said is probably the most dubious of his various “Founding Fathers.” That’s not to say Said was an unimportant figure in Obama’s life, but unlike people who Obama did explicitly rely on for personal aid (Bill Ayers), or who influenced him in childhood (Frank Marshall Davis), Said lacks the visceral personal connection of his peers. Indeed, it’s arguable that the real “Founding Father” is less Said himself than his successor at Columbia, Rashid Khalidi, who has been well-documented as a close friend of Obama’s.

That’s not to say that Said and Obama never interacted. Even the Leftist website The Daily Kos admits that Obama did take at least one course with Said while he was at Columbia (where Said was a professor):

First, D’Souza notes that “Obama studied with Said at Columbia University.” OK. In David Remnick’s The Bridge we are informed that Barack Obama did indeed take a class in modern fiction from Said. We’re also informed that Barack Obama wasn’t that impressed, if the interviewee is credible.

So Obama did sit in Said’s classroom at Columbia. Beyond that, he has been documented to have attended a 1988 fundraiser hosted by the Arab-American Action Network where Said was the keynote speaker, and to have sat at the same table as Said. However, beyond these two anecdotes, there is little evidence of a personal connection between Obama and Said.

By contrast, Obama’s relationship with Khalidi is easily proven. Indeed, the Los Angeles Times has reported that Obama spoke at a banquet honoring Khalidi and was apparently Khalidi’s “frequent dinner companion.” Their basis for this is a video showing Obama’s speech honoring Khalidi which the Times has declined to release to the public, citing confidentiality concerns.

However, that is not the only evidence of a connection between the two. Obama himself described Khalidi as a “former neighbor and university colleague” on his web site in 2008. Khalidi hosted a fundraiser for Obama in 2000. The two are apparently no longer in close contact, and Obama claims not to share Khalidi’s views on Israel (about which more later), but there’s little doubt that Khalidi would have had an opportunity to peddle Said’s ideas to his “frequent dinner companion.”

As for Khalidi’s connection to Said, that too is murky. Khalidi holds a chair at Columbia University endowed in Said’s name, and shares Said’s high level of sympathy with the Palestinian people. He also spent some time teaching at Columbia University, and was likely a colleague of Said’s, though there is little evidence to link them as close associates. However, given Columbia University’s reputation for hosting Said-style radicals on its Middle Eastern Studies faculty, the odds of someone who is not such a radical holding the chair endowed in Said’s name there is, to say the least, unlikely.

So what did Said actually believe? To answer that, one has to turn to Said’s most famous work – the 1978 book “Orientalism.” What did Said argue in this book? To quote one of his defenders over at Kos:

Now, where Said’s treatment of Orientalism is provocative and in my opinion most powerful is in his recognition of the symbiosis among policy, science and popular public imagination, what Said denotes above as ‘the corporate institution.’ The core notions binding these three realms were: 1) the fundamental otherness or exoticism of the East, an otherness essentialized to the opposition of Eastern stasis versus Western vitality; 2) the natural and scientifically demonstrable superiority of the latter over the former; and 3) the privileged position of the Western construct of the East over actual Eastern narratives of their own cultural histories. Orientalism was in essence a Western cultural project to appropriate the East, a manifestation less of substantive knowledge of the East than of the production of knowledge to justify a will to govern the East.

Let me boil all of this down to a single statement: we are the inheritors of a two-century project to manufacture an idea of a naturally and necessarily inferior East in order to rationalize the exercise of Western power upon the East.

A less kind way of putting this thought – that the West could not avoid being racist in describing the history of the Middle East, and thus only Middle Eastern people could write that history – was expressed by Said’s longtime intellectual opponent, the British-born historian of Islam Bernard Lewis, who scorned Said’s ideas as springing from a brand of “intellectual protectionism.” From a description of Lewis’ scholarship:

His engagement in these controversies set the scene for his confrontation with the Palestinian-American literary critic Edward Said. In 1978, Said publishedOrientalism, which argued that the modern study of Islam in the West had evolved as a tool of imperialist domination, and that the West’s pursuit of knowledge had conspired with its pursuit of power. Orientalism, effectively a form of racism, had misrepresented Islam as static, irrational, and in permanent opposition to the West.

Lewis maintained that the development of Orientalism was a facet of Europe’s humanism, which arose independently of, and sometimes in opposition to, imperial interests. Islamic studies, after neutralizing the medieval religious prejudice against Islam, had been an important arena of discovery and achievement. Lewis rejected the view that only Muslims, Arabs, or their political sympathizers could write the region’s history: he called this “intellectual protectionism.” A combination of curiosity, empathy, competence, and self-awareness was the only prerequisite for the writing of “other people’s history.”

Lewis, incidentally, was brought in to consult with the Bush administration after September 11 on how best to deal with the culture of the Middle East. Said, meanwhile, was a member of the Palestine National Council. Rather a wide gulf in terms of sympathies is clearly at work between the two. Said, for his part, held something of a hostile view of the United States, as he sniffed in his 1993 book “Culture and Imperialism” that “The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.”

For a fuller exposition of Said’s views from his own mouth, consider this video, which contains audio of him giving a lecture about “Culture and Imperialism”:

And this clip of him speaking “On Imperialism”:

So Said – and by extension Khalidi – most certainly advance a school of thought that is broadly anti-Western (or as they put it, “post-colonial”). But how might it have influenced Obama?

One interesting piece of information about Said’s views complicates the picture of him as a garden variety anti-colonialist in the mold of Barack Obama, Sr for the younger Obama to cling onto as a “Founding Father.” That is, he was concerned almost entirely with the Middle East’s resistance to colonialism, either of the intellectual or political variety. The struggles of African leaders like Obama, Sr would have been incidental to this overriding concern. However, that’s not to say that Said would have brushed off those concerns if confronted with them. Given the general approach of Leftist thinkers like Said, who frequently view all “oppressed” peoples as connected to each other in the struggle against Western rapaciousness, it’s not hard to imagine Said or someone like him encouraging a young Obama to adapt some of Said’s views about the Middle East to fit Obama’s own situation.

Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, given recent events, even if Obama did not apply Said’s lessons to his own life, the seeds of those lessons may still be noticeable in Obama’s policy today. It could certainly explain the notable frustration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the Obama administration’s persistent refusal to back Israel in an increasingly tense face-off with Iran. More ominously still, it may explain the Obama administration’s puzzling insistence that an anti-Islamic video was at fault for the Arab crisis currently sweeping the Middle East. Certainly, followers of Said would have every reason to reflexively blame the West for protests at American embassies, rather than making the more simple logical leap to blaming terrorism.

This reflexive blame would be even more enticing for a follower of Said given what allegedly caused the attack – namely, a video made by a Western critic of Islam which portrays the Middle East and Islam itself as backwards, ugly places that not only tolerate sexual slavery, pedophilia and rampant religiously motivated brutality, but actively celebrate them to the point of making a Prophet out of a supposed perpetrator of all three. The Youtube video in question, “The Innocence of Muslims,” is almost a textbook example of what Said himself was most enraged by in his scholarship – namely, Westerners imposing their value system as a lens by which to judge the actions of Middle Eastern culture as somehow barbaric. Of course a follower of Said’s system would blame a video like that rather than believe legitimately barbaric terrorist groups are involved, for in Said’s system, finding the cause for Middle Eastern violence really is a case of, “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying Western eyes?”

But don’t take our word for it. Just listen to Said’s criticism of the United States’ foreign policy, given in an April 2003 interview with the Arab Magazine Al-Ahram Weekly:

My strong opinion, though I don’t have any proof in the classical sense of the word, is that they want to change the entire Middle East and the Arab world, perhaps terminate some countries, destroy the so-called terrorist groups they dislike and install regimes friendly to the United States. I think this is a dream that has very little basis in reality. The knowledge they have of the Middle East, to judge from the people who advise them, is to say the least out of date and widely speculative.

Looking at this passage, it is not difficult to see the roots of a political doctrine that, afflicted by a stubborn refusal to find Middle Eastern culture wanting, celebrates the rise of politicians like Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi as somehow being “moderate” despite their demonstrable commitment to an ideology that has death in the service of Islam as its highest goal, and their idolization of men who use religion as an instrument of death and terror.

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Arc
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:27pm
With Obama’s Islamic indoctrination in Jahkharta , Indonesia in his early childhood, then Frank Marshal Davis( Communist) then Bill Ayers and Marxist Black Liberatioin Theology,, Rev Wright, James Hal Cone, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan & The Nation of Islam, Henry Louis Gates, then Kahlidi and Said. Such a mix with the NAACP, The Black Panthers and on top of it all, Michelle only recently being proud of her country. Not much room for Founding Fathers type thought.

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- darkknight91
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 4:25pm
  Birds of a feather.
  
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- wordsofwisdom
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 5:22pm
  The way that this administration has acted & spoken has turned out to be a well choreographed snow job.
  I am struck by the way the narrative has unfolded. They have sought to destroy the U.S. economy their by causing wide spread kayos that was to be their vehicle to world disorder & Islamic control with them pulling the strings. Their plans did not factor in the resoluteness of the American people to stay free! It is not easy to get someone that is free to give it up for a cause like Jihad & Islamic law. With all this out in the open now they have been exposed for what they are Muslim socialist. But now that we know, this song can be sang all over this land called “Ode to Obama” http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/13541875
  
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- stiffingtheworkingclass
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 7:22pm
  Yet there are still so many who view him as a moderate. I guess the truth is hard to see when you’re looking with your eyes closed.
  
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mutt
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:27pm
Slick Willy Clinton nailed it “this guy is the biggest fraud ever.” Wouldnt you love to know what the Clinton’s discovered back in 2008?

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- GramSam
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:44pm
  Problem is the Clinton’s are no better than BO. Same people running the show just different actors. BJ was just mad that the Chicago thugs were nastier and able to knock Hill out of the race.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 3:55pm
  @gramsam…ditto. Well said.
  
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- DennisHabern1
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 5:11pm
  I would love to know what the Clinton’s discovered in 2008, especially if it hammers another nail
  
  the the Moron’s political coffin, if you follow.
  
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pookieamos
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:07pm
Osama Bin Laden is dead , but if you ask me Barack Hussein Obama represents more harm the America than Laden could’ve ever dreamed ! The enemy is within . If Romney wins we must turn to Agenda 21 , we must rip this UN garbage from our cities, from our towns , from our counties, from our states and from America.Romney 52 Obama 45 in Gallop .

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- txannie
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 3:56pm
  Amen…from our prayers to God’s ear.
  
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IsThereADifference
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:42pm
There is nothing wrong with pedophilia and family incest; we just need to stop looking at their culture through our “Western Lens.”

Who’da Thunk???

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kadster01
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:33pm
You show me one superpower, at any point in history, which became a superpower by kowtowing to it’s enemies, apologizing for it’s every conquest, and deliberately tying a hand behind it’s back just to make it fair, and I will show you a superpower that never existed. It’s the nature of life on earth and it extends to every living creature on earth.

It is only the weak – the ones who lost – who seek to obtain power by appealing to the emotions of the strong, to make them feel guilty for having strength, power, and intelligence. Listen to the idiotic students in the class chuckling as Said, in essence, tells them they should willingly sacrifice the honor of being at the top to those who not only do not want to share that status, but want them dead. Idiots.

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blackyb
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:23pm
Obama is a foreign agent in our White House.

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stealthman
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:10pm
Well I was close yesterday. I thought that it would be Rashid Khalidi. Instead we get Edward Said as an Obama Founding Father. So I am 1 and 1. I guessed on Tuesday when it was Bill Ayers day that Wednesday would be Frank Marshall Davis’s day. And yesterday I guessed that Thursday or Friday would be Rashid Khalidi’s day. Ok I am batting 500.

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- stealthman
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:22pm
  Of course, Scott Baker himself in the above article said that it is a close contest between Edward Said or his student Rashid Khalidi about which one was one of Obama’s Founding Fathers. So I at least should get some partial credit. What do you think Blazers? Do I get partial credit since according to Baker himself it is arguable that Khalidi had more influence than Said did on Obama? I don’t know how to score this. If I get partial credit, then I am batting 750.
  
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- stealthman
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:50pm
  I must admit that the real mystery is: Who is Obama Founding Father #5? This is not a prediction, but perhaps it is the one he tells us is his father, Barack Obama Sr. Yet, the two, father and son, hardly ever crossed paths. So I am perplexed Scott, who is Founding Father #5? Since Said comes paired with Khalidi, then Khalidi will not be #5. This should be interesting whom Scott Baker has chosen for tomorrow. I close the season batting 750.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:28pm
  Let’s take his conflict back to its origins. Biblical origins.
  We could talk about Ishmael and Jacob, Judah and Babylon….on and on, but these are stories of he same conflict, which started 14,000 years, or so, ago. It looks just like the last debate, as well as the problems in our kid’s education and the state of the union. A spiritual disconnect, that lends corporeal existence, in fear of death, supremacy and prime importance over all philosophy and religion, as political concerns and social issues are changed to tools, to advance agendas. A conflict (war), of enduring values opposed to plain, common, selfish greed and arrogance, fired by the fear of death.
  At this moment in time the leaders of the world are in a tizzy over-ISLAM. They feel it is impossibly scary to stand up to these killers, so, they capitulate, surrender, or in some cases they are embraced (Obama).
  Enter the NWO. the ‘savior’, peace maker. Authoritarian, secular, cruel and genocidal.
  All the details and identities are contained in bible prophecy.
  
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- jman-6
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:31pm
  I think your looking to far into it! LOL Remember all of them are his FF’s they just have to show all the connections to put in a article. Simple process of elimination tells us all we need to know.
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:53pm
Explains Obama’ s hatred of Israel, for sure……………….

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JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:50pm
The real question is;
When the fiscal music stops in this country, who do you, want in control?

A chance for freedom, or a committed socialist?

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smalldog
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:48pm
“…perhaps terminate some state’s independence through vote fraud, destroy the so-called conservative and libertarian groups they dislike and install regimes friendly to the collective/statist viewpoint…” Actions, not words.

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:21pm
If I wanted to hire someone now days I would immediately throw out any applicant from one of these Saudi funded institutions. What a huge waste of money ignorant people are spending to have indoctrinated hateful minds filled with lies. Even if they don’t take the specific lying classes the culture at these schools are terrible and wrong. Society and American culture are paying a very high fiscal and moral cost for these mind twisting high-paid baby-sitting freaks that are teaching not truth but, revisionist history and outright lies.

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- bobdiamond
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:34pm
  I have news for you, most Universities in this country are teaching similar indoctrination. KSM was radicalized in a U.S. University. Read political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- I support God's Israel!
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:46pm
  A Warning to Every Proud Ruler:
  
  http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/90-450/a-warning-to-every-proud-ruler
  
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ultor-de-deus-exercitus
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:16pm
ultor-de-deus-exercitus
A TIME TO CHOOSE 2012
Imagine a leader who fears God instead of one who thinks he is god.
Imagine $2 gas at the pump.
Imagine higher wages.
Imagine a world that respects us compared to the one that is now controlling us.
Imagine a China that fears us instead of owning us.
Imagine keeping more of the money you earn.
Imagine a declining national debt.
Imagine less people on welfare.
Imagine not being called a hater for calling radical Islam radical.
Imagine a world with fewer abortions.
Imagine people taking care of themselves instead of taking from others.
Imagine controlling your own future instead of your future being controlled.
Imagine being able to give to people who are thankful compared to being forced to give to people who think they are entitled.
Imagine a society of respect instead of a society of envy.
Imagine having respect for the creators and distain for the takers.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS. . . THIS TIME
Romney VS Socialism
LAST CHANCE AMERICA

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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:25pm
  Imagine a young child able to have a Lemonade stand.
  Imagine being respected for your belief in God and not ridiculed.
  Imagine not being tracked by the government via your computer, phone or vehicle.
  Imagine the sports celebrities attaining their level of success through genuine talent and not steroids.
  Imagine the Manufacturing taking place in the U.S. and NOT overseas.
  Imagine listening to a politician speak and believing him because a man is as good as his word.
  Imagine welcoming immigrants into this country with the premise that they conform not the citizens.
  Imagine listening to teenagers speak without throwing the F bomb every other word.
  Imagine we all do with less material goods and try to have 1 parent home for the children (if possible)
  Imagine the majority actually ruled in the country and not the 3 % fringe groups
  
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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:47pm
  Imagine business owners large & small felt confident enough in our ecomony to hire people.
  Imagine the stock market wasn’t one big ponzi scheme.
  Imagine our government isn’t buy billions of rounds of ammunition to use on who??
  Imagine there were no such thing as Fema Camps.
  Imagine people didn’t die for exposing TPTB who are setting the stage for disaster in the U.S.
  Imagine God not pouring His wrath out on the U.S. because we’re not as bad as S & G.
  Imagine that all good people go to heaven regardless of their relationship with Jesus Christ.
  Imagine that the “love of money” isn’t really the root of all evil.
  Imagine children being born to parents who pledge to love and protect them forever.
  Imagine satan not having the power to blind the vast majority of human beings.
  Imagine someone was allowed to shared their cure for cancer openly instead of researchers bilking the public and letting people die to pad the pockets of the pharmaceutical shareholders.
  Imagine if our president was a U.S. born citizen and truly loved America the Beautiful.
  Imagine if the MSM reported or informed the public of all the s**t they have on that president.
  Imagine if our legislatures actually READ the 800 page BILL before passing it.
  Imagine if the liberal hollywood celebrities weren’t brainwashing our children with liberal crap.
  Imagine if the parents actually spent time trying to teach the kids that some things are ABSOLUTE.
  
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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:53pm
  Sorry to hijack your post ULTOR ~ just couldn’t control myself.
  
  P.S. Imagine if people had more self control !!
  
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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:01pm
  OOps ~ BILL was 2000 pages and 800 billion (I think)
  
  Imagine if people got their facts straight before posting them.
  Imagine if people didn’t ever make mistakes : )
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 3:59pm
  Imagine a world as if lucifer never rebelled in the first place. Hang in there, THAT one is easier than all the rest! The Lord WILL restore the world. It happens with or without our input.(and soon.)
  http://theseason.yolasite.com/
  
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- Chesterton
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 6:31pm
  Imagine a society that protects the unborn from slaughter by the one person with the power to protect it.
  Imagine a society where women were respected for their minds rather than willingly using their bodies to shame themselves
  Imagine a society where people were honest and all it took was a handshake and you could trust that alone
  Imagine a society where people helped their families and their neighbors
  Imagine a society where children were seen as gifts from God rather than as commodities or tools to make adults feel good
  Imagine a society where millions of government rules, regulations, forms, delays, and controls weren’t necessary because the people actually cared about each other
  Imagine a place where you owned what you worked for
  Imagine a place where crime, drugs, gangs, and illegal alien criminals hadn’t taken over the streets and neighborhoods in millions of places
  Imagine a place where jails and prisons were few because crime did not pay
  Imagine a place where politicians, teachers, clergy, and judges were honest
  
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- bustedupvet
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 9:41pm
  Romney is the only hope Lady America has. She needds to be freed of the rapist socialist Obomba!
  America needs to end this 4 year error this November! Do Not Fail Our Country!!
  Mitt Romney will make a great President!!
  
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65Mustang
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:03pm
I would not allow my child to attend, must less pay the tuition that these cesspools of liberal colleges charge….not going to happen, their diplomas are nothing but a sham.

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- honor007
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:15pm
  I never thought I would say that I am happy my two girls are not in College, especially with my oldest being a really bright individual. But, I question what they would really learn with how they are shuffling these kids through college in herds.
  
  She sees this also, thank God. I will buy her any college study book that she wants. She is a self-educator. She was taught “how” to learn. In my opinion, not everyone is College material.
  
  She is a new Mother and her peers are giving her crap for being a stay at home Mom. What has this world come to?
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:52am
Obama hates the US and the west. He was indoctrinated by communists and anti-western thought throughout his life. The colleges he went to (like Columbia) spend their time and money on highlighting the thoughts of easterners who hate the west. They are the ones that keep pushing this white-western guilt trip they say we should have. No…we don’t have guilt and the west is a superior civilization. Quit listening to people who are hateful and jealous of the west……like obama.

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thibx
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:41am
i have never heard of someone going to another country from the usa and teaching in their schools and teaching hate for the country they are teaching in. but this country lets these sob’s in to teach in our schools. this is one i’m glad is dead.

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- I support God's Israel!
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:52pm
  We live in a FREE society, which allows this. However, I do believe our Forefathers warn us that in order to keep our republic, WE, THE PEOPLE must personally take responsibility for it. In other words, WHAT ARE YOU PERSONALLY DOING TO PREVENT PAGANISM, SOCIALISM, ETC. FROM INFILTRATING OUT SOCIETY?
  
  Each one of us must answer that question. GOD WILL HOLD TRUE CHRISTIANS ACCOUNTABLE, IF YOU BELIEVE THIS COUNTRY WAS GIVEN TO US BY GOD.
  
  I do believe God is giving us ONE LAST CHANCE and that would be to fire Obama because HE IS A SOCIALIST; HE IS A PAGANIST; HE HAS INFILTRATED OUR COUNTRY WITH ANTI-GOD DOCTRINE.
  
  Obama is not a ruler that God wants to lead this country.
  GOD WANTS A PERSON WHO WILL PUT GOD FIRST. Obama does not do that.
  Romney does.
  
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- BCanook
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:59pm
  It doesn’t happen like that overseas regarding teachers/professors. We, in the U.S., allow it to happen and it is everywhere.
  
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- RicardoPinetree
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:07pm
  @ I Support Gods Israel
  
  Christian Zionism is heresy and you know it.
  
  Israel attacked the USS Liberty in 1967 in order to convince Lyndon Johnson to fight a war with Egypt. Christ was very much against unjustifed war:
  “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.” (Matthew 5:9).
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
  
  Dual-citizen Jonathan Pollard stole American secrets on military technology and gave them to Israel. Which proceeded to sell them to Communist China, a country which forcibly aborts millions of fetuses each year.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
  
  Last but not least the Israeli government persecutes Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem, where some of the first Christian churches stand. 60 minutes exposed them.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf1z4oHygPo
  
  If you want to support Zionist Israel remember you are supporting heresy. Jesus made it very clear when he has here on earth that he established a NEW COVENANT, there is no such thing as dual redemption. CJ Scofield was a heretic. I cannot judge any of my fellow man, I can only educate. But the Bible, The Word of GOD, made it very clear what happens to heretics.
  
  AMERICAN CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS 1 —– CHRISTIAN ZIONIST TRAITORS 0
  
  PS: To any fellow true Christians reading this, please feel free to copy and paste my message on other conservative and/or christian message boards. It is very important that we expose this Christian Zionist heresy.
  
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Chromo200
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:40am
I am not not going to quote Said or Obama, but how convenient that they forget the holocaust the muslims did on the Africans, or the occupation of countries, or the murder of ethnic societies that did not agree with their religion. How convenient that we have to love other religions, but they don’t have to. How convenient that they come to this country to change it but we are not allowed to go there and change it. .

Now regarding Israel. Historically the Jews were in what is Israel now, and just because the Romans spread them throughout the empire, Israel is still their land. And after WWII the majority of the land was purchased from the Arabs. Yes settlements are built at the objection of the Palestinians. My feeling too bad, Arabs want war and when they loose they whine. Look at the life in Gaza and the life in Israel. One is run by thugs and murderers that spend their money on guns, girls, booze and drugs and the other sends it’s money on improving its citizens lives.

If Said and Obama feel we are colonialist, then they can start a movement to leave this country and return to the country of origin . I wonder which one Obama will choose. They should remember that this country was inhabited by America Indians and they want us out.

Lastly .. Since Obama believes in income redistribution, countries that have resources that we don’t have in abundance we believe that by taking it we are redistribute their wealth.

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- I support God's Israel!
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:56pm
  They did not forget. They just don’t want anyone else to remember it.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:39am
Now a fair amount of questions are answered concerning Obama.

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- AnOregonian
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:58pm
  It’s shameful we are siting here four years into this mans term and just now attempting to understand his core beliefs. I didn’t vote for the guy, I ‘d always felt something was wrong.
  
  With the advantage of hindsight it’s clear to piece together who and what he’s made of. Along with Said, you have to include Khalid Al Monsours influence during O’s “formative” years at Columbia.
  
  Moving forward we all need to hone our story telling skills and take it upon ourselves to educate as many folks as you can, time is running out.
  
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GrayPanther
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:37am
Most of our colleges and universities are filled with Marxist in key positions and they employ more of there type as a policy. This taints most students who must suffer their indoctrination. I have studied Communism for over 30 years from old books such as J Edgar Hoover’s ” Masters of Deceit” published in the 50′s. Also The Naked Communist” by W Cleon Skousen published in 1961. Joe McCarthy was drummed out of Washington by Democrats and their friends the Communists. McCarthy was right and they and their friends are still in our government. We can now include the Progressive caucus, President Obama and Hillery Clinton to the list. It’s critical we remove the Communists where ever they are and as soon as possible.

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djsGA
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:36am
Can we shut down Columbia? That is a big part of the problem.

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AmazingGrace8
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:35am
After “briefings” from Pres. Bush to the incoming president, the candidate and now incoming president CONTINUED many policies of the previous admin.. Fast forward and the current president is “knowledgeable” about “THINGS” regarding national and international affairs and enemy & foe to the United States’ WELL-BEING & SURVIVAL in this “mad-world”. Probably JUST ME but I am VERY UNEASY and WILL BE UNEASY when I see president Obama “fly-away” from D.C. and start/continue a life away from “the spotlight”.
JUST SAYING.

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Mapache
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:27am
And the Chinese, Japanese and other Asians did not have similar stereotypical views of Westerners?

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TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:19am
ERROR???

This is from barackobama.com; Restoring America’s standing around the world

FORWARD: President Obama has strengthened our alliances around the world with friends like Israel, our NATO allies, and our partners in Asia and Latin America. And he has brought together international coalitions to confront shared challenges, such as Iran’s nuclear program.

DO THEY REALLY BELIEVE THIS STUFF???

BACKWARD: On a foreign trip, Mitt Romney insulted one of our closest allies—the British—right before their Olympics. And he’s spent months on the campaign trail criticizing our allies and partners around the world.

WHO SENT THE BUST OF WINSTON CHURCHILL BACK TO ENGLAND? (Barack Obama did)

President Barack Obama has showed the world the USA under his presidency is a paper tiger, weak, no spine, just like Barack Obama. His middle east policy is close to starting WW3.

Jimmy Carter was recently on record saying the hostages that were held for 444 days under his presidency were all released without the need for armed conflict on the ground.

HEY JIMMY IT WAS RONALD REGAN THAT FREED THOSE HOSTAGES WITHOUT CONFLICT. HOW? THEY KNEW RONALD REGAN WASN’T A PUSH OVER LIBERAL AND THEY FEARED HIM!

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- I support God's Israel!
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 12:54pm
  Obama is a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR.
  This should scare the crap out of every person who reads this.
  
  OBAMA IS EVIL (with a smile on his face).
  
  OBAMA IS A DISGRACE TO OUR REPUBLIC.
  
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ThomasUSA
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:06am
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”[

What happens when a President fails the oath of office?

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- OldGringo
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:20am
  Congress is supposed to do its job and impeach him to get out of office…ultimately the power rests with people in elections –
  
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- TheLeftMadeMeRight
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:21am
  Depends what color he is………………..RED or BLUE. (What were you thinking?)
  
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- RightUnite
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:22am
  They’re fired….
  
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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:31am
  The better question would be: What happens when a POTUS repeatedly commits or enables others who report directly to the Executive Branch to commit TREASON?
  
  Hint: Operation Fast & Furious…arming Mexican drug cartels while the US is in a “war” against drugs and failing to secure our Southern border. The arming of Al-Qaeda in Libya and Syria, IMO, should disqualify him immediately as Commander-in-Chief of the US armed forces. Is Obama, as CoC, eligible to be tried for TREASON before a military tribunal? Leon Panetta? Generals who carry out unConstitutional and clearly illegal orders to funnel arms to our enemies?
  
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- TJSON
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:36am
  I don’t know, what happened to Bush?
  
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- stopthis
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 2:02pm
  People,
  
  Tell your state political men and women to walk out of this shame of a Administration.
  
  Peace in Truth
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:04am
I had to stop the video and read the whole story. The guy’s speech was driving me nuts. Did anybody else notice those pregnant pauses as if somebody in front of him was flipping to the next Cue Card?
Said certainly was a mentor to 0bama.

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- TJSON
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:41am
  Interesting that you can’t even expose yourself to ideas that don’t fit into your preconceptions about the world.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:57am
  Tjson
  Apply post below. RJ read, but couldn’t listen…you get this weeks Hellen Keller award, toad.
  
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- TJSON
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:31pm
  @bufared
  RJ read the heavily biased (which he already agrees with). He was unable to listen to the lecture by Said (which he has decided he does not agree with). He criticizes the man’s patterns of speech but does not even comprehend the content of what is being said.
  
  It is actually quite fascinating and complex, you should listen to the full hour and FORM YOUR OWN OPINION about what he is saying.
  
  But you won’t.
  
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- TJSON
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:32pm
  Also, Helen Keller was an incredible human who overcame challenges that you and I cannot even comprehend; I would be honored to have such an award.
  
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RightUnite
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:02am
The only good Said is a DEAD Said….

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